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The North American blizzard of 2008 was a winter storm that struck most of southern and eastern North America from March 6 to March 10, 2008. The storm was most notable for a major winter storm event from Arkansas to Quebec.
The tornado weakened to EF1 strength as it moved through the southern part of Ottawa, damaging many homes and trees before dissipating near Marseilles. Two men in Ottawa were killed by a falling tree, and fourteen other people were injured. This was the northernmost February EF3 tornado on record in Illinois. [15] EF1 NE of Marseilles: LaSalle: IL
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, including the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957 and the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually. [1]
The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department has posted an aerial, panoramic view of the flooding on its Facebook page. The same area flooded in July 2022 and is caused by overflow from Richland Creek.
Pages in category "Disasters in Ottawa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... 2013 Ottawa bus–train crash; 2018 United States–Canada ...
2013 Washington, Illinois, tornado; Tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2013; Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013; 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale tornado; 2021 Naperville–Woodridge tornado; Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021; 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado; Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023; Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023
In Ottawa, the 37 centimeters of snow that fell on December 16 broke a new 24-hour December snowfall record set on December 21, 1977, while it fell 3 centimeters short of the all-time one day snowfall record of 40.4 centimeters set on March 2, 1947, which was part of its worst all-time snowfall event of 73 centimeters set on March 2–3, 1947.
Get the Ottawa, IL local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... CBS News 5 hours ago Polar vortex set to freeze the U.S. as far as the Deep South.